EXETER CITY COMMUNITY TRUST

Registered charity 1121596 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EXETER CITY FOOTBALL IN THE COMMUNITY

Health & well-being charity within Exeter and its surrounding area providing sports-related programmes focused on social inclusion, education, health & well-being.Assist in the social and physical education of children, young people and adults of all ages.

Objects

1.1.1 to promote for the benefit of children, young persons and adults within the Area of Benefit, the provision of, or the assistance in the provision of, facilities for education and recreation or other leisure time occupation of individuals who have need of such facilities by reason of their youth, age, infirmity or disablement, financial hardship or social and economic circumstances or for the public at large in the interests of social welfare and with the object of improving their condition of life; 1.1.2 to relieve poverty or financial hardship among people living or working within the Area of Benefit, by providing or assisting in the provision of education, training, housing management services and other necessary services and support with the object of improving their condition of life which they could otherwise not afford through lack of means; 1.1.3 to promote social inclusion for the public benefit by preventing people within the Area of Benefit, from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of those who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society. For the purpose of this clause, ‘socially excluded’ means being excluded from society, as a result of one or more of the following factors: unemployment; financial hardship; youth or old age; ill health (physical or mental); poor educational skills or attainment; relationship and family breakdown, poor housing (that is housing that does meet basic habitable standards); crime (either as a victim of crime or as an offender rehabilitating into society); and 1.1.4 to promote, preserve and the protect the physical and mental health and well-being of people within the Area of Benefit, in particular (but without limitation) by providing and assisting in the provision of facilities and activities, information and support to improve health and fitness and help people maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Area of benefit: DEVON AND ITS SURROUNDING AREA

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Accommodation/housing · Amateur Sport · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Exeter, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that free reserves were £690,070 at year-end, representing approximately 5.3 months of staffing and operating costs, which is below the trustees' policy target of six months. The charity reported a net incoming resource of £347,110 for the year, resulting in total unrestricted funds of £1,862,925. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Charlton Baker (Bristol) Ltd. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In its annual return the charity told the Commission it is also regulated by: Estyn: Her Majesty's Inspectorate For Education And Training In Wales. This is the charity’s own declaration; it is not a rating and has not been verified by the Commission or by this site.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Exeter City Community Trust (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/01/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~10.3 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (58% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Andrew Rothwell
• Holly Davey
• Julian Francis Tagg BEM · trustee of 1 other charity
• Karime Hassan MBE · trustee of 3 other charities
• Matthew Lee Davey
• Paul James Goodes
• Richard Wynford Marsh
• Ross Morshead
• Sanjana Truran

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Cornwall · Devon · Somerset · Torbay

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with CHELTENHAM TOWN COMMUNITY TRUST.

• CHELTENHAM TOWN COMMUNITY TRUST income £442k
• WATFORD FC'S COMMUNITY SPORTS & EDUCATION TRUST income £3.0m
• EXETER COMMUNITY CENTRE TRUST income £376k
• PRESTON NORTH END COMMUNITY AND EDUCATION TRUST income £1.8m
• EXETER COMMUNITY INITIATIVES income £747k
• EXETER CHIEFS FOUNDATION income £240k

Side by side with its peers

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